different between malleate vs mallet

English

Etymology

From Latin malle?tus, perfect passive participle of *malle? (“beat with a hammer”), related to malleus (“a hammer, mallet”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?mæl.i.?t/, /?mæl.i.e?t/
• (verb): (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?mæl.i.e?t/

Adjective

malleate (comparative more malleate, superlative most malleate)

1. (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
   • 2009, James H. Thorp & Alan P. Covich (eds.), Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd ed., page 181

     Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane.

2. (malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
   • 1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, "A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 40: 313

     The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.

Translations

Verb

malleate (third-person singular simple present malleates, present participle malleating, simple past and past participle malleated)

1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
   • 1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12

     Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

Translations

See also

• forge
• hammer

Related terms

• malleability
• malleable
• malleableness
• malleably
• mallet

Further reading

• malleate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• malleate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• malleate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Verb

malle?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of malle?

English

Etymology

From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæl?t/
• Rhymes: -æl?t

Noun

mallet (plural mallets)

1. A type of hammer with a larger-than-usual head made of wood, rubber or similar non-iron material, used by woodworkers for driving a tool, such as a chisel. A kind of maul.

2. A weapon resembling the tool, but typically much larger.
3. A small hammer-like tool used for playing certain musical instruments.
4. A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.
5. The stick used to strike the ball in the sport of polo.

Derived terms

• malleter
• Mallet (cryptography)

Translations

Verb

mallet (third-person singular simple present mallets, present participle malleting, simple past and past participle malleted)

1. (transitive) To beat or strike with, or as if with, a mallet.
   • 2007, John Geddes, Highway to Hell (page 220)

     […] and when a couple of insurgents ran in to make the capture she malleted them with her rifle.

Related terms

• malleable
• malleate

Further reading

• mallet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mallet in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mallet at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• metall.

Latin

Verb

m?llet

1. third-person singular imperfect active subjunctive of m?l?